Heinrich Bernhard von Sydow

Heinrich Bernhard von Sydow was a Major-General from Hanover who led two Hanoverian regiments during the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Heinrich Bernhard von Sydow was born in Hanover, Germany, and he was a veteran soldier; he had fought in the War of the Austrian Succession (a 1749 painting of him survives) and the Seven Years' War. In 1775, King George III of Britain sent Von Sydow to Minorca with two Hanoverian regiments to replace the British Army garrison there, whose troops had been sent to North America during the American Revolutionary War.